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Why can't I vote on any deals?

Apr 15, 2011 2:23 PM

So this morning I was starting my normal regimen but when I got to the normal check out deals.woot and see the great deals posted overnight, I was unable vote.

A message stating that I needed to buy something at a Woot! site popped up. Given I have made 51 purchases in my time following Woot! I logged out and back in to no avail. Tried on my iPad and the same issue exists, so seems to be something with my account.

I emailed service@woot.com hoping for some assistance, but I am still unable to vote after several hours and multiple logout-login attempts. I can add deals, comments, questions (obviously), etc. but am curious what might be going on and if you all have any advice?

funkadelic78 funkadelic78

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Already asked http://deals.woot.com/questions/details/d871227b-2bfd-44c5-b9be-09ef5fcdce56/is-anyone-having-issues-voting-on-deals#20

neolithicx neolithicx
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Check out this here: http://deals.woot.com/questions/details/d871227b-2bfd-44c5-b9be-09ef5fcdce56/is-anyone-having-issues-voting-on-deals#20

You can see other users with similar issues and bugs today.

@neolithicx That was quick, seriously almost at the same time we posted.

xarous xarous
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Thanks.

I did a search and the last question to show up was 5 months ago.
At least I am not alone with this.

Thanks for the quick replies.

funkadelic78 funkadelic78
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I just voted on the #2 Popular item - meritline.

Is this still a problem for anyone?

jumbowoot jumbowoot
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@jumbowoot: I think that there are people still having this problem, yes, since (as I'd just pointed out) @ohcheri just made a comment, and it had zero woots.

http://deals.woot.com/questions/comment/95995991-15a8-44e5-b974-193feda22601

[Edit] The one woot on her comment is mine; here's her comment.

http://deals.woot.com/questions/comment/70b0bd2c-e429-49e9-b8a7-4ef0ec9a37cf

shrdlu shrdlu
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@jumbowoot: Back from an early lunch and things looks fine again. Thanks for the assistance in getting this taken care of!

funkadelic78 funkadelic78
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funkadelic78 funkadelic78
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@jumbowoot: looks like I am experiencing the issue of not being able to vote on deals again. Logged out and into the site, tried a different browser, tried on my playbook and all are blocking this functionality. Here is the message I receive:

Sorry
This is only for people who have bought woots
We restrict voting to users who have purchased something from one of the other Woot stores. It's not just because we want your money (which we do) - it's the best way to be sure all the votes are coming from real people and not spam-bots or phony accounts. The best way we can think of, anyway. For now.
You can always get voting rights by buying something from one of Woot's other sites:
woot.com
wine.woot.com
shirt.woot.com
sellout.woot.com
kids.woot.com
Purchases through Deals.Woot don't count, because in that case you're not buying anything from us. And we don't have your account information for those purchases....

funkadelic78 funkadelic78

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Sorry

This is only for people who have bought woots

We restrict voting to users who have purchased something from one of the other Woot stores. It's not just because we want your money (which we do) - it's the best way to be sure all the votes are coming from real people and not spam-bots or phony accounts. The best way we can think of, anyway. For now.

You can always get voting rights by buying something from one of Woot's other sites:

Purchases through Deals.Woot don't count, because in that case you're not buying anything from us. And we don't have your account information for those purchases.

If you think you've bought something from Woot before and still can't vote, make sure you're logged in with the same account you used to buy from us.

Geez, why so negative?

You have to vote up more before you can vote down.

Don't get us wrong. Negativity has its place. And downvotes are just as essential as upvotes when it comes to making Deals.Woot a useful place to find deals.

But when your votes lean so heavily toward the dark side, we have to wonder. Go vote up a few things. Accentuate the positive for a little while. It'll do you some good, and it'll do the site some good, too. Then you can get back to dealing out the smackdowns, OK?

Too late, we all heard you!

Hmm... you're wanting to take your vote back?

Well, that's a bit tricky. See, we do a lot of stuff with your vote, using it to work out the popularity of what you voted for, compare that to all the other things voted on, tally up our leaderboard, work out your reputation. Someday we'll do a little cartoon showing just how hard your vote is working.

Anyway, taking votes back messes all that up, so we give you five minutes, in case you just mis-clicked. After that we've got to say no take-backs. Luckily, votes are free, so feel free to throw them around left and right wherever you see fit.